Jerusalem (sleep album)

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Jerusalem
Jerusalem cover
Studio album by Sleep
Released February 22, 1999
Genre Stoner Metal, Doom metal
Length 52:08
Label North America Music Cartel
Europe Rise Above
Producer(s) Billy Anderson, Sleep
Professional reviews
Sleep chronology

Sleep's Holy Mountain
(1993)

Jerusalem
(1999)

Dopesmoker
(2003)


Jerusalem is an album by the stoner metal band Sleep. It was released by Music Cartel Records originally in 1999.

For their third record, Sleep took almost two years writing, re-writing, and recording with producer Billy Anderson, investing a large portion of their major label advance on the album. The result was a 63-minute song, "Dopesmoker", that left the managers at London Records confused and dismayed. The band was subsequently dropped, and the resulting red tape contributed heavily to the band’s disbanding. The album was released under the title of Jerusalem by Music Cartel Records, with the the song Dopesmoker cut into six different tracks against the band's wishes.

Four years later in 2003, Dopesmoker was released in its full-length single-track form and is considered the definitive version of the third album by Sleep.


[edit] Track listing

  1. "Jerusalem" – 9:26
  2. "Jerusalem" – 8:26
  3. "Jerusalem" – 9:01
  4. "Jerusalem" – 10:28
  5. "Jerusalem" – 5:45
  6. "Jerusalem" – 9:03

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